Equinox started as great and fell apart quickly. For the interviews, there is a phone screen, a technical phone screen and multi-interview onsite (all my interviews were conducted virtually). The technical phone screen was fairly simple. I was asked to explain my technical background, projects and interests. There were a ew basic JavaScript React questions and team conflict related questions. It is open-ended. The onsite was short four back to back interviews. Each interview was 30minutes. You meet with potential teammates (engineers), manager and director. All questions were standard: behavioral questions, basic JavaScript questions and discussing a past system design. It is one of the few interviews I did not need to write code for the entire process. It was more high level questions and basic language specific questions. All interviewers were considerate. After finishing the interview process, I didn't hear back. I waited two weeks and followed up with the recruiter. The email bounced; I received a email stating that address is no longer registered with that domain. I emailed one of the interviewers, a software engineer. It did not bounce but after waiting another week, I received no reply. I emailed the interview scheduler. Then, I received a reply within a few days letting me know that the recruiter no longer works there and they are unsure if the software engineer works there anymore, either. Plus, on hiring is on hold. In these times, putting hiring on hold makes prefect sense. However, I would've expected the recruiters work and contacts be moved to another employee and to receive an email letting me know that. Also, when people leave a company, their emails accounts are active for some time and their emails are forwarded another person so nothing is missed. It took about three weeks for me to get an answer on my final round interviews. Even though meeting with the team was positive, the incompetence within the Equinox company was very clear. There are several ways this issue could have been mitigated. I wonder how many others in their pipeline received similar treatment.

I got a recruiter email about working for Equinox and thought it could be a decent opportunity, and received an invite to talk to the CTO in person or do a call. I had some free time so I decided to visit in person, as usually that means one is more interested in the job. I had a nice chat with the CTO (if a bit brief) about my background and talked about the growing team. After leaving, I received an email about doing another phone call with some other developers, and confirmed it. Day of the conference rolls around and I don't get a call. I email twice asking about if it's still going on and get radio silence back. I send a follow up email if there's a reschedule, and get nothing. Way to drop the ball.